Ann Crowley

Ann Crowley (1765 – 1826) was a British Quaker minister.

Life Crowley was one of the eight daughters of William and Catherine Crowley. She was born on 8 May 1765 in Shillingford in Oxfordshire where her father was a maltster and mealman. Ann was aware of her weaknesses for music and clothes and unusually appreciative of her parents restraining advice. Ann became aware of her calling when she was sixteen. The following year her father died, but she was content with her life with her sisters. This peace was disturbed when three of them married and one of those three, Mary Ashby, died in 1791. Their tiring tour took two years. She was to blame "northern blasts" as her health declined. After three years she toured again with Priscilla Hannah Gurney as they ministered in Norfolk, Essex and Suffolk. This again exhausted her and she went home where her youngest sister Rebecca died after an illness. In 1815 and 1816 she toured for the last time and doctors sent her and her sister to recuperate by the sea in Hastings.